Lite Meeting Notes Attea Sept. 08

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LITE Meeting Notes for 9/08/2008
3:15 in the Attea LRC
In Attendance:
Helene Davitz, Laura Nekola, Danae Ciske, Felicia Posner, Marek Dzianott, Judy Berlin, Dave Pagac, Cecilia Biller, Bruce Leinbach, Lindy Rosenberg, Mary O'Reilly, Elizabeth Lundgren, Marcy Ray, Amy Noonan, and Rhonda Lindner, Barbara Takata, Jenn Turk
Discussion Questions:
Between now and next Friday, I ask that each of you meet with your
LITE mentor to discuss:

  1. How are things going with your use of technology in your classroom?
    1. Great! Love my document reader! Danae
    2. Great now that everything is hooked up and setup
    3. Like being able to access files and do work from anywhere in the school VERY HELPFUL
    4. Especially like being able to get to AT_VOL from home
    5. Technology isn't just having a class cart- can be anything
    6. Love Mac! Thing have been going very well but would like to have more advanced training on Smart board.
    7. Has been a great experience! Hoping to make inroads in classroom tech soon, not that nwea is almost done
    8. I am getting a document reader set up...can't wait, and still love the projector. The combo. will make me very "green". (Barb)
    9. Working well, an it's been great so far to have a cart on team -Elizabeth
    10. Great, I am doing new and different things all the time (Turk Smart Board - copyright pending) - Jenn

  1. How have you integrated technology into your classroom already?
    1. Already used the laptop for problem of the month
    2. Following election- 1/2 hour of the candidates acceptance speech through the laptop
    3. Making an imovie for curriculum night
    4. Smart Board being used all the time
    5. Created her team webpage on iweb
    6. Powerpoint on Curriculum Night using laptops
    7. Took the students in one block on a hike around Lake Glenview and the students downloaded the pictures onto teacher laptop and they made an imovie - unfortunately it was raining for the other blocks, so the teacher showed the imovie for a visual tour of hike that students couldn't go on because of rain.
    8. Internet research to look up stats for my Monday Night Math project
    9. Daily use of power point for "math messages"
    10. PowerPoint for guided notes, dictionary.com for vocabulary notes, map websites for geography, latitude, longitude, wrd processing for project exemplars, project rubrics, etc.
    11. this year - quia only due to nwea use
    12. Teacher created powerpoint presentation for the 5 themes of geograpy
    13. Powerpoints for classzone.com
    14. Word Processor for guided notes
    15. Using laptop to project math warm ups. (Barb)
    16. Projecting on the whiteboard for bell ringers, outlines, and notes
    17. Turk Smart Board, clip art for student with disability, flash drive camera, "The Writer", pp for curriculum nite, create website, wiki, newsletter - Jenn
  2. How do you see yourself integrating technology over the next month?
    1. Use CPS for chapter review (when getting new cps?)
    2. Make more integrated SmartBoard lessons- not just presentational in nature but more interactive and collaborative
    3. LRC Team will be teaching Information Literacy skills to students
    4. Excel lessons for math
    5. wiki pages, online integration
    6. Quia lessons and online review games
    7. Using doc. reader to do Daily Paragraph in LA every day. (Barb)
    8. Wiki and document reader
    9. wiki, iweb website with attachments, Turk Smart Board, projection of info for students, create form for reporting progress - Jenn

  1. What is your main goal for technology integration during the 08 - 09 school year?
    1. I am hoping to create a LRC web page and update the Browse feature of Alex - Laura
    2. I am hoping to have at least half of my lessons by the end of the year be interactive Smartboard lessons.- Danae
    3. My technology goal is more personal than integrative--I'd like to become more versed in specific programs especially Excel and Powerpoint. Although I use them now, my knowledge feels too basic. - Judy
    4. To use iWeb with 7th grade students as an electronic portfolio for their LA experience - Marek
    5. Work with 6th, 8th and Marek Dzianott's gifted class in creating electronic portfolios to show growth in learning- Helene
    6. I would like to learn all there is to learn about my MacBook since I have been a PC user for so many years and to create more interactive smart board lessons. - Marcy
    7. I would like to learn and utilize MacBook and its software for creating, displaying and publishing student work, such as PowerPoint or iMovie or iWeb. Students successfully used PowerPoint to create and present work including presentations as Cabinet members to Barack Obama and authentic 1800s news journals. - Bruce
    8. I would like to include wiki and quia more and then go to iweb - Rhonda
    9. More interactive, student-centered lessons rather than teacher-centered presentational uses of technology. -Mary
    10. Get students up and running on a number of progams, such as PowerPoint (LA), and Comic Life (LA). Barb
    11. I would like to implement a reflective online portfolio with LA students to demonstrate growth - Elizabeth
    12. My goal is to teach students more about technology, help them get comfortable with school web resources and be independent, and to help those that are frustrated with typing and technology love it! - Lindy

5. How does the access to the additional technology help you with integration?
1. We are so fortunate to be blessed with such state of the art technology when other districts cannot even offer basic tools such as books. We should never take that for granted. -Mary

6. What additional support do you need to effectively use the technology tools you have?

    1. During PLC, could job alike /grade alike teachers collaborate to create technology integrated lessons that will be used by both teachers for common lessons and assessments
    2. During the LITE Middle School meeting, have different modules for 15 minute modules for people to walk through ie: small tech fair to learn various skills that would help teachers be more efficient in using their laptop and ways to help integrate technology into their laptop.
    3. What are the expectations of documentation for meetings and professional development?
    4. Advanced Smartboard training
    5. training, training, and more training!
    6. I'm not sure when the ceiling projectors will be installed, but I will be able to better utilize my document reader when that technology is available to me. Mary
    7. Ellen R's room still has her Smart Board in the box. Once this is installed, our GL team can take turns swapping classrooms so we can create some SmartBoard lessons. Mary
    8. More training. Barb
    9. Excited about training!

Other possible agenda items if time permits:
*Mac Tips and Tricks from Danae- 3 short Mac Tip Podcast Movies
*Any Questions you may have regarding the use of your laptop
*Sharing your screen so we can help you remotely via videochat

Danae talked about Widgets = press F4 and you will see widgets- to explore and add more widgets- click on plus at bottom of the window.
Stickies- a program in your applications menu that are like sticky notes on your desktop to make a stickey- file new note and keyboard apple key- good way to keep notes on computer for referral

To make a pdf.- Go to print document under file, at left bottom corner, there is a pdf button with a pull down menu- choose "save as pdf".
Keyboard shortcuts

a. Picture taking
Command-shift-4 –takes a picture of a specific desktop window or graphic and is saved as a .png to the computer desktop
Command-shift 4 and control key- Takes picture of a specific window or object and saves to the computer memory, not to the desktop
Apple-shift 3 – your whole screen
b. Double scroll - two fingers
c. Zoom
Within a program (Control-Apple-double finger scroll)
Whole screen (Control-double finger scroll)
d. Switch between programs (Apple-Tab)
e. Presentation mode – Apple-esc
f. Force Quit (Apple-option-esc)
g. F12 -Bring up Widgets
h. F11 -Hides open windows to view desktop (click F11 again to get it back)
i. F10 - Hides all windows except for active window
j. Control- Shift- Eject (Triangle with line under in top right corner)Puts your Monitor to sleep immediately-
Press any key to wake it up.
k. Hold Option key while dragging any file or grahpic- will make a duplicate of the item you are dragging
L. Command-Delete- Moves selected files to the trash


Helene demo'd podcasts. Open iTunes and go to iTunes store. Search Apple Quick Tips and subscribe. Enjoy.